How to Pack A Moving Truck To Maximize Space

Are you relocating to a new home or office with a ton of stuff to move? This can be tedious, and it gets difficult to pack all your luggage into a moving truck securely. You want to ensure you pack up the moving truck in a way that maximizes space.

It would be inefficient to take many trips or use many trucks. You also don’t want to damage essential items during transit. Basically, you want to know how best to maximize the space in the back of the truck.

Here’s how you can do this with ease:  

• Protect and secure

It is a known fact that packing and unpacking can be a most strenuous task. The effort is only well worth it when you find that all your luggage is safely unpacked. Having missing, broken, or damaged items can be an upsetting way to end your moving task.

So, while packing your items into a moving truck, make sure you protect essential things. These include furniture, glasses, kitchenware, or any such items. Drape exposed surfaces with pads or blankets.

Also, you should prevent scratches from hard surfaces from rubbing against each other. Avoid storing sharp or pointy items with soft materials. Fragile items should go into carefully-handled boxes.

To secure your luggage, use sturdy boxes, plastic wraps, packing tape, furniture pads, and moving blankets. Items that can shift or fall apart should be tied together, and stacked in layers.

• Arrange and distribute weight evenly

To maximize space, you need to distribute weight evenly so that the moving truck is well loaded. To achieve this, disassemble weighty items such as large furniture or appliances.

Disassemble items such as bed frames, couches, tables, chairs, washer/dryers, and coffee tables. They should also be placed towards the front of the truck, near the driver’s section. This way, a part of the truck space is not mounted with bulky, heavy items that would cause a tilt in the truck’s balance.

Also, such heavy items should not be placed on less weighty items. Rather, they should be loaded in first, and laid at the bottom of the truck. Lesser weights should be loaded in afterward, while lightweights should finally be placed atop or tucked into spaces securely.

Another way to ensure even distribution of weight is to place large furniture items upright. Maximizing the use of vertical spaces allows more room on the floor of the moving truck for boxes and other luggage.

• Use straps to section items

Transporting a moving truck can be a long, bumpy ride. To ensure that your items stay in place, it is advisable to make use of moving straps to keep different sections of your items together.

If you have smaller items that you don’t want rolling into a corner or crevice, then you must use moving straps to keep them in place. Disassembled pieces must also be strapped together, so they can be reassembled with ease. This also helps you maximize space for several other items.

Take Advantage of the Best Local Moving Services!

Finally, remember that you do not have to go through the stress of loading all your belongings efficiently all by yourself. This is why you have Gilbert Moving and Storage, where you are sure of a seamless moving process.

Your belongings get handled by trained experts who observe the best industry practices. We aim to keep your items safe, from your old location to the new location. We offer our services in local residential and commercial moves. We operate within the Apache Junction, Gold Canyon, Queen Creek, Sun Lakes, Fountain Hills, San Tan Valley, Ahwatukee Foothills Village, and Paradise Valley areas.